{"id":4438,"date":"2012-09-04T23:03:35","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T03:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/?p=4438"},"modified":"2012-09-04T23:03:35","modified_gmt":"2012-09-05T03:03:35","slug":"new-yorkbreakthru-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/new-yorkbreakthru-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"New York\/BreakThru Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It’s not often that I get to showcase my photography and music together. This is an interview on BreakThru Radio about my book Time and Space on the Lower East Side. Thomas Seely, the DJ, typically mixes indie rock songs with his interviews with visual artists. He does the same in my case, but also plays my song Tenement Stairs, which was written back in 1980 when I first photographed the neighborhood. I originally recorded the song for the Fast Folk Musical Magazine, but this is a newer recording.\u00a0<\/span>

I really love how the whole thing turned out. It’s internet radio, so you can listen at your leisure.<\/span><\/p>\n

BreakThru Radio<\/a>\u00a0interview<\/p>\n

Brian Rose’s<\/a>\u00a0new book of photographs,\u00a0Time and Space on the Lower East Side<\/a>,\u00a0is all about\u00a0 how we experience change, or lack of it, in the urban environment.\u00a0The book is a collection of large format color photographs taken on the streets of New York City’s Lower East Side in the years 1980 and 2010. Over those 30 years the Lower East Side has gone from being a symbol of urban blight and decay to a\u00a0poster-child\u00a0for urban renewal and gentrification.\u00a0But,\u00a0 Brian’s\u00a0 book is not a collection of side-by-side comparisons contrasting two different eras of the neighborhood, like the books in which a picture from one location is juxtaposed with a picture taken from the same spot many years later. Instead, the photographs in\u00a0Time and Space on the Lower East Side\u00a0reveal the year in which they were taken through small details like a pedestrian’s bellbottoms, the design of a parked car, or the typography on a billboard. That is, if the photos reveal their age at all. More often than not \u00a0you can’t really tell what year any given picture was taken in without a thorough examination.<\/em><\/p>\n

This is what makes Brian’s book so \u00a0unique: \u00a0it looks at what stays the same in a city as much as it does the things that are gentrified, torn down or rebuilt. It forces us to move past simplistic\u00a0story-lines\u00a0about a neighborhood’s transformation and look more carefully at the urban landscapes we move through every day. This approach provides a rare opportunity to see one of the world’s most over-photographed cities in a new way.<\/em><\/p>\n

Recently I visited Brian at his studio on the Lower East Side. We talked about the neighborhood’s apocalyptic feel in the 1980s, why he returned to the Lower East Side in 2010 to photographs, and how for him, sometimes doing nothing is the best way to make a photograph.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s not often that I get to showcase my photography and music together. This is an interview on BreakThru Radio about my book Time and Space on the Lower East Side. Thomas Seely, the DJ, typically mixes indie rock songs with his interviews with visual artists. He does the same in my case, but also […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4438"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4446,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4438\/revisions\/4446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}